WEST VIRGINIA CODE

WVC 18 B- 16 - 9
§18B-16-9. Accountability; reportsand audit required.
(a) The vice chancellor, with the assistance of the advisory
panel, shall report in detail to the board of trustees on the
expenditure and planned expenditure of public funds to the schools
of medicine under section eight of this article. The board of
trustees shall report to the governor, the president of the Senate
and the speaker of the House of Delegates annually prior to the
first day of December as a part of the higher education report
cards required by section eight-a, article one of this chapter.

(b) The vice chancellor, with the guidance and recommendations
of the advisory panel, shall develop additional performance
indicators, including, but not limited to: (1) An analysis of the
health care needs of the targeted areas; (2) the number of persons
served and the nature of the services provided; (3) the number of
full-time and part-time faculty, students, interns and residents,
by discipline, participating in the health science and allied
health care education programs; (4) the number of health providers
in each community served by primary health care education sites;
(5) the financial, social and health status changes in each
community served by primary health care education sites; and (6)
the extent to which the plans and policies of the office of rural
health and the health care planning commission are being
effectuated. The vice chancellor shall provide information on the
performance indicators to the board of trustees for inclusion in
the higher education accountability report card for health sciences
provided for in section eight-a, article one of this chapter.

(c) The advisory panel shall report at least annually to the joint legislative oversight commission on education accountability
created under section eleven, article three-a, chapter
twenty-nine-a of this code and to the area health education centers
subcommittee of the joint committee on government and finance
regarding the status of the rural health care initiative, paying
particular attention to the role of the communities.

(d) The vice chancellor shall report at least annually to the
joint legislative oversight commission on education accountability
created under section eleven, article three-a, chapter
twenty-nine-a of this code and to the area health education centers
subcommittee of the joint committee on government and finance
regarding the status of the rural health care initiative, paying
particular attention to the role of the schools of medicine.

(e) The board of trustees shall facilitate a meeting at least
quarterly for the chief administrators of each primary health care
education site established pursuant to this article and each chief
administrator at other rural health care facilities providing
educational and clinical experiences to students, interns and
residents at the state's schools of medicine. The meetings shall
commence no later than the first day of July, one thousand nine
hundred ninety-two, and shall be for the purpose of discussing the
status, efficiency and effectiveness of the various programs and
their operation and recommending any changes to the board of
trustees, which may include statutory recommendations to be made to
the Legislature.

In addition to the reports otherwise required and commencing
with a report for the fiscal year beginning on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-one, the chief
administrators shall submit to the board of trustees an annual
evaluation of the extent to which the goals set forth in section
four of this article and other goals relating to collaborative
efforts between the schools of medicine and rural health care
facilities are being attained. Such report shall be forwarded
annually in its entirety to the governor, the president of the
Senate and the speaker of the House of Delegates no later than the
fifteenth day of January.

(f) The legislative auditor, at the direction of the joint
committee on government and finance, shall perform on an ongoing
basis a fiscal audit of the medical education components within the
university of West Virginia system, the state college system and
the rural health initiative for periodic review by the Legislature.

Note: WV Code updated with legislation passed through the 2016 Regular Session
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